Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Bosnia Herzegovina and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Bronski Beat show in Brixton.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1961 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983 at the first Bronski Beat practice in a loft in Brixton.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Mark Hollis to the dance kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Sun City Girls. All the underground hits.
All Major Organ And The Adding Machine tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Walker Brothers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sad Lovers and Giants record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eddi Front,
Graham Central Station,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Black Pus,
Flamin' Groovies,
Metal Thangz,
John Coltrane,
Lyres,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Jeff Lynne,
Mantronix,
Rufus Thomas,
Tubeway Army,
Sly & The Family Stone,
MDC,
UT,
Excepter,
Wally Richardson,
Kerrie Biddell,
Can,
Flipper,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Skaos,
Suicide,
Barbara Tucker,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Moss Icon,
Vainqueur,
Harry Pussy,
The Neon Judgement,
The Gap Band,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Jerry's Kids,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Hasil Adkins,
Jimmy McGriff,
Robert Wyatt,
The American Breed,
Ten City,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Fad Gadget,
Gang of Four,
China Crisis,
The Techniques,
Ralphi Rosario,
Kenny Larkin,
Nation of Ulysses,
Dennis Brown,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Sex Pistols,
Television,
Jandek,
Cameo,
Michelle Simonal,
Pierre Henry,
Juan Atkins,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Laurel Aitken,
The Gun Club,
The Seeds,
Skarface, Skarface, Skarface, Skarface.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.